Button Requires 2clicks to load external swf

[esearing]

On a shell movie I have 5 buttons inside a Menu MC. The buttons load external swf's to a container MC (named holder or holderLeft). In test mode I only have to click the buttons once. On the web I have to click them twice to get them to work. I waited between clicks to test if it was a loading time issue, but nope, requires 2nd click.
Once the external movie has been loaded once, it only takes one click to replay it.

See

http://www.esearing.com/flash_site/escomMenu.html

Photography button is not yet active.

Button Code
on (release) {
_root.holder.loadMovie("mySwf.swf", 5);
}

mc "holder" actions to slide in menuitems MC
onClipEvent ( load ) {
_x=1000;
_y=110;
xtgt=125;
_alpha=30;
setProperty(_root.holderLeft, _visible, false);
setProperty(_root.holderRight, _visible, false);
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame){
_x+=(xtgt-_x)/10;
if (_alpha < 100){
_alpha+=5;
}
}

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[oldnewbie]

Why does Contact work on a first click?
Must be in your coding... Hard to say without having a full look at it!
Can you post a mock-up .fla, with the same coding?

Regards,

 

[esearing]

Thanks for responding so quickly.

Contact uses attachMovie to attach a simple mc to the menu mc. The other buttons use loadMovie to load the external swf into the container MCs (holder & holderLeft). holder is empty until the loadMovie action.

Contact button actions.
on (release) {
attachMovie(&quot;mc_contact&quot;, &quot;c&quot;, 10);
c._x = 100;
c._y = 200;
setProperty(_root.holder, _visible, false);
setProperty(_root.holderLeft, _visible, false);
setProperty(_root.holderRight, _visible, false);
}
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[oldnewbie]

Well, can you post some .fla? Or e-mail it to me, or better e-mail me a link to it?
IMHO, you do have another problem (as a lot of posters here have!), when on a second press, the called mc repeats from the start.
You're right in saying that once loaded, one click will suffice, but hitting any button for a second time (while already on it), will restart the selection from the beginning, and it shouldn't!

Regards,

 

[esearing]

Fla is zipped at
esearing.com/Flash_Files/escomMenu.zip

I included the links.swf so you can test the AS on the links button.

I fixed one syntax issue. I removed the level number in the loadMovie.

You help is greatly appreciated. eSearing.com
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[esearing]

figured it out.

Had to move my setProperty statements from the holder MC to the buttons. eSearing.com
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[oldnewbie]

Well try Flash Samples followed by Links... Or contact followed by link!
And a second press re-initiates the whole thing from the start. I'm sitting on Links right! I hit links again, why doesn't it just stay there, rather than come back in? Get my drift?

Regards,

 

[esearing]

Because it reloads the external swf. when it reloads the swf it positions the MC at _x=1000 then slides it to the xtgt.
I haven't put in a method to check if the newswf==oldswf yet. I assume I can set a variable on the root which tells me which button was last pressed then add AS to prevent loading of the same movie.

I might even try to fade or slide the current movie before loading the next.

Thanks for the response anyway. eSearing.com
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